US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on May 13 for "Method, computer program, and data processing circuitry for access control to encrypted data using attributes of the data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,158, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, computer program, and data processing circuitry for access control to encrypted data using attributes of the data" was invented by Dimitri Torfs (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexandru Serbanati (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michele Minelli (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing encrypted data including encrypting first data with at least one first attribute. The first attribute satisfies a first access policy of a first cryptographic key to enable one or more first users holding the first cryptographic key to decrypt the encrypted first dat...